PDN - July 2012

PDNEWS

BY DAVID WALKER

QUESTION & ANSWER

ADAM PRETTY ON
SHOOTING THE
OLYMPIC GAMES

Getty Images staff photographer Adam Pretty has won numerous international awards, including Sports Portfolio first place awards at Pictures of the Year International in 1999, 2000 and 2010, and the Sports Story first place award at the 2011 World Press Photo competition. Pretty will be in London in July to cover his sixth Olympic Games since starting his career in the late Nineties at The Sydney Morning Herald. By David Walker

PDN: After five Olympic Games, how do you keep your images fresh?

ADAM PRETTY: I’m not shooting as much sports as I used to, so when I come back to the Olympics, it’s easier to be motivated [again]. But it is getting harder and harder for photographers at every Olympics, because TV takes up positions photographers used to have. So it becomes more of a battle, but that motivates you to keep pushing yourself to make better pictures.

PDN: What do you anticipate will be different about shooting at the 2012 Olympic Games? AP: Previously we roamed around covering 20 different events. This time Getty will have photographers dedicated to certain venues because security will be tighter and the events

From Adam Pretty’s POYi prize-winning sports portfolio, Australia’s winning goal of the Boys Gold Medal Hockey match against Pakistan at the Youth Olympics in Singapore, August 2010.

Online News Digest

The following are excerpted from breaking news
stories recently posted on PDNOnline and PDNPulse.
To read the complete stories and to find more news,
check out www.pdnonline.com/pdn/News.shtml.

National Magazine Award Winners
for Photography Announced
Vogue won the prize for best overall
use of photography, while Harper’s
Magazine won the News and
Documentary Photography award
and The New York Times Magazine
won the Feature Photography award.
The 2012 National Magazine Awards
were announced May 3.
http://bit.ly/J7EoKB

From Richard Ross’s “Juvenile Injustice”
photo essay in the October 2011 issue of
Harper’s Magazine.

Copyright Claim Against Tumblr May Test Immunity
of Photo-Sharing Sites
Perfect 10, a San Diego-based publisher of pornography,
alleges that Tumblr is liable for copyright infringement
because it ignored demands to take down Perfect 10
photos posted on Tumblr without permission.
http://bit.ly/ISc WBz

International Center of Photography Names New Director The ICP board of trustees has named Mark Robbins its new executive director, replacing Willis E. “Buzz” Hartshorn, who is stepping down for medical reasons. Robbins is currently the dean of the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. http://bit.ly/K6SNoV

David Guttenfelder Wins Two Overseas Press Club Awards The AP photographer won The Olivier Rebbot Award and feature photography prize for two photo stories; OPC also named André Liohn winner of The Robert Capa Gold Medal and Pete Muller winner of The John Faber Award. http://bit.ly/KLzcsg